It's a dire time, and pragmatism beats out idealism in the face of what we're all up against. |
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It's about upholding national sovereignty in the face of fancy, transnational treaties, like the Human Rights Act. |
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The government should not retreat in the face of striking workers using force. |
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To equivocate in the face of it would be an absolute abdication of intellectual responsibility. |
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Terror in the face of potentially false memories was one issue McNally hoped to study with abductees. |
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They forget that keeping silent in the face of injustice makes them accomplices of the criminals. |
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That conclusion, Mr Phillips says, flies in the face of the evidence recorded at paragraph 86 and shows that it was left out of account. |
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I have more faith in the ability of the general public to act for the greater good in the face of a crisis. |
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She was as classy as they come in the face of misfortune, so was he when he got jobbed out of a second medal. |
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If you live in the woods and haven't planned how you'd make a fast dash in the face of a wildfire, you've got some thinking to do. |
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Absent a critical cultural adaptation, human beings could never have thrived in the face of this constraint. |
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This measure flies in the face of judicial efforts to insist on disclosure of evidence. |
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I could do nothing, in the face of the present attitudes and philosophies of those who administer our laws. |
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If we abandon our ideals in the face of adversity and aggression, then those ideals were never really in our possession. |
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He symbolises great tolerance, and dogged persistence in the face of adversity. |
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It was a day when global warming showed that it can survive even in the face of a westerly gale. |
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Even in rural Australia, however, kangaroos may have been less plentiful in the face of systematic destruction by pastoralists. |
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But its foray didn't gain traction in the face of competition from the fleet-footed white labels. |
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Even when others act where you have not done so, you continue with your willful neglect in the face of crisis and misery. |
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To the kibbutznik, the story is one of heroic volunteers establishing themselves in the face of a hostile population. |
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She shows that the upbeat view doesn't hold up in the face of a careful examination of the numbers. |
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The government doesn't need to hold fast to its original plan in the face of such fierce opposition. |
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Once inside the car, he kicked out at the interior door panels and windows, as well as spitting in the face of another police officer. |
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General readers who have stayed this far will not be surprised that, in the face of such a blatant rebuff, the Reserve Bank did nothing. |
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Indeed, one of the prices of a victory won in the face of French and German recalcitrance has been a slide in UK support for the single currency. |
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It attempted to create kinship without blood in the face of an enduring equivalence between blood and belonging. |
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It is pathetic and woeful, and it is a slap in the face of the victims of this country. |
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It is doubtful whether it would have made any difference in the face of greatly superior British ship handling and gunnery. |
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I've observed their joy and wonder, and I've seen their fear and sadness in the face of events they cannot control. |
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Liberals everywhere were redefining themselves in the face of a conservative backlash of one degree or another. |
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The claim that doing harm is no worse than allowing harm flies in the face of powerful intuitions to the contrary. |
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There is one thing that is worse than evil and that is cowardice in the face of it. |
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But once in a while people are brave and regather their energies in the face of further governmental arrogations of power. |
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He also hopes shoppers will keep Cheam alive by supporting the local economy in the face of growing development. |
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Economics is often described as the study of how to allocate limited resources in the face of unlimited wants. |
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He discusses allostasis, the fight-or-flight reaction a person feels in the face of stressful situations. |
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Legal language, however, cannot remain silent in the face of unspeakable injuries. |
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She delights in flaunting her youthfulness in the face of her older colleagues. |
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History suggests that moving students off-campus is a last resort, only to be encouraged in the face of over-population. |
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Forrest saw African American oral traditions as rich repositories of ritual and value, sources of meaning in the face of suffering and tragedy. |
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Once upon a time, such laughter in the face of violence was considered subversive. |
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The Poles' victory at Warsaw was seen at the time as the salvation of European democracy in the face of communism. |
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The panicky reaction of players at the US Open betrayed their lack of resilience in the face of adversity. |
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It is striking how resiliently such ideas persist in the face of inconsistent evidence. |
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His steadfastness and resolve in the face of his critics are deserving of praise. |
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They have the responsibility to behave reasonably in the face of possible threats. |
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He also pointed out the likelihood of potential retaliation by terrorist groups in the face of US air strikes in Afghanistan. |
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Obviously the council have now retreated in the face of their united voice. |
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The gloomy outlook on bonuses comes as investment banks worldwide are retrenching in the face of dwindling business volumes. |
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True to that, marketeers and police have from time to time clashed over market closures in the country in the face of epidemic outbreaks. |
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For so long, many religious conservatives have fought for laws to be passed in the face of a culture that was very libertine and pro-choice. |
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Did they hold up in the face of criticism with the right combination of vulnerability and bravery? |
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Her aim is to safeguard employee privacy rights in the face of growing employer snooping capabilities. |
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But who are the romantics out there who believe true love can survive in the face of the new social construct of independence? |
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It was a constant struggle to exist in the face of the more powerful Liverpudlian neighbours. |
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Whereas a payday loan borrower always has the protection of declaring bankruptcy, he has no such option in the face of a surly loan shark. |
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How strong are you in the face of someone trying to assert authority over you through their verbal abuse? |
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The control orders were rushed through parliament earlier this month in the face of widespread opposition. |
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Here in Toronto we have our own sad and terrifying story of inaction in the face of murder. |
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Various tours are available by speed boats that take you for the most spectacular views, even up the gut to laugh in the face of El Diablo. |
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To be authentically is to choose one's own life in the face of one's mortality. |
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One feels so helpless, so small in the face of such awesome power being so recklessly cast about. |
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Their deaths are spectacles of passivity in the face of an avenging passion that is beyond their emotional range. |
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Align the pilot bit of the hole saw with the center point you marked earlier in the face of the door, and begin drilling. |
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I'd expect a partial backdown on the university attack in the face of unanimous opposition by the Vice-Chancellors. |
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Physicians added staff and worked harder to maintain their income in the face of managed care. |
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And why should a man deny his nature when that nature calls, even in the face of his scholastic learning? |
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Whatever you might think about the man, his morals, or his use of drugs, you have to admire his tenacity in the face of illness. |
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The skill and tenacity of the teaching assistants were very apparent, often in the face of challenging new extensions to their role. |
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The game itself, in the face of financial chaos, seems in real danger of terminal collapse. |
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I admire your blithe spirit in the face of overwhelming reality, and your ballsy indifference to the same gloom that frequently swamps me. |
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All those who regard themselves as progressives must stand firm in the face of this new politics. |
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European mass-market car makers are struggling in the face of intense price competition brought on partly by overcapacity in the industry. |
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In the West, however, Diocletian's system worked for a time, but then fell apart in the face of the barbarian invasions. |
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Europe took refuge in a feudal system in the face of increasing barbarian invasion. |
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For all his claims to resilience in the face of criticism, he is not as thick-skinned as he professes to be. |
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Man has no hope for salvation, only a chance for dignity, gained by absurdly carrying on in the face of the yawning maw of the meaningless abyss. |
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It is quite another to look the other way in the face of out-and-out lies, fraud, and misinformation in the arena of environmental science. |
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In late March 1942, No.75 Squadron hurriedly deployed to Port Moresby in the face of initial Japanese air thrusts against the city. |
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South Cumbrian dairy farmers are young, thrusting and ambitious, according to a new survey that flies in the face of gloomy industry forecasts. |
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In complete silence, I meditated and fought off the frightening hallucinations which often happen in the face of sensory deprivation. |
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She has expressed concern at the government's multibillion-rand arms deals in the face of growing poverty. |
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Should a critic drop her defences in the face of soft journalism, thumbnail description and popular explanation? |
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The amazement, glee, even exaltation he found in the face of what he set out to photograph can be imagined if not really demonstrated. |
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Perseverance in the face of adversity is always a welcome attribute, even if that adversity is sometimes self-inflicted. |
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The winners were chosen for showing bravery in the face of disability, illness or selfless devotion to others. |
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Patterson and New Zealand pro Matt Horne seized control in the face of a tidy but far from fierce attack. |
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The blizzards had ceased three days ago and the remaining snow was swiftly melting away in the face of the late January sun. |
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Only the most brilliant of chief executives can move the share price and even here the evidence in the face of the dotcom meltdown is scant. |
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It was an intimate experience to catch a glimpse of naked anxiety, grief or joy in the face of another. |
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Guardsmen, standing well over 6ft tall in their black bearskins, never flinched in the face of the mini-enemy. |
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But if I had so much as a tingle of buyer's remorse it has faded in the face of several joyous afternoons of camera play. |
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He had a mercurial temperament and was never one to hold back his views, even in the face of opposition. |
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With a sprinkling of new players still bedding in, they looked ill at ease in the face of a familiar, and formidable, United side. |
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The door has been slammed in the face of these families who now feel utterly rejected and at the bottom of the heap. |
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These also serve well as night sights with three tritium round dots, one on each side of the rear notch and one in the face of the front sight. |
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Many former celebrants of the music have become detractors in the face of its hypercommercialization and transracial acceptance. |
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Doesn't that sort of fly in the face of this argument that big money corrupts the system? |
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But in the face of biohackers, serious defenses need to be discussed, and I believe that transparency is the most realistic solution. |
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There is a delightful comedy in the Oscar mix and three period biopics that reach for triumph in the face of adversity. |
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Such shows of belligerence in the face of the party's latest crisis are unlikely to win over critics on his own back benches. |
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In any event, she was charming in the face of my momentary lapse in speech. |
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Stamboliiski boldly opposed Bulgaria's entry into the First World War in the face of the monarch Tsar Ferdinand. |
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Since then, he had been fired from two jobs, and in the face of rising pot prices, had turned to other, more harmful drugs. |
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Are we reflecting an attitude that turns the other cheek, an attitude that goes the extra mile in the face of abuse? |
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The film is a brutal, blood-soaked plea for compassion and understanding in the face of monstrosity. |
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When we are silent in the face of accusation, the public sees us as guilty. |
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How does she continue to live with her father and go along with undisturbed blitheness in the face of her older sister's accusations? |
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But we cannot go on congratulating ourselves for our forbearance, or Blitz spirit or reason in the face of madness. |
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Passivity, in the face of such a bold, unabashed show of power from above, appears to be the order of the day. |
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Maintaining the distinctiveness of their culture in the face of urbanization and modernization is a challenge for the present-day Motu. |
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New questions go begging for new answers, become unappeasable in the face of old answers, and the system doesn't explode, it implodes. |
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Humankind possesses this uncanny ability to survive in the face of adversity! |
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Oh, we've been very diplomatic but in the face of a deliberate and concerted political campaign the issues get muddied. |
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Even in the face of hardship, she remained undauntedly gracious to those around her. |
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This fiction is realistic, often portraying the lives of common people and the underclass in the face of adversity. |
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Jeremy continued to stare at the bodiless voice, speechless in the face of dozens of questions he wanted to ask it. |
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Resolve in the face of doubt, if it is a virtue at all, is a virtue even when one has undertaken an enterprise in error. |
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But one thing we know is the brain craves simplicity especially in the face of today's media bombardment. |
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This may fly in the face of the obvious and maybe I am foolish but I am soaring right now on the faith of unfaltering belief of what is possible. |
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He flew to a military base to shore up his support in the face of unfavourable polls and growing unease in Washington about the conflict. |
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It was a supremely rational column that made it sound like I had it all together, unflappable in the face of grief. |
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It's a bleak view proposed by the Dardennes, and one that flies in the face of old homilies about pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. |
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She has a certain fondness for Xavier, born of his apparent helplessness in the face of getting by. |
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This is simply unacceptable and flies in the face of numerous borough and county policies. |
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Markets of themselves cannot provide efficient water prices in the face of unpriced environmental externalities. |
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Why would I lend it any other meaning than the one that gives me joy, some vitality and in the face of unreasoned reality? |
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The extent to which a human can be made to feel insignificant in the face of an intractable force of nature knows no bounds. |
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The carrier's real issue is that, in the face of unstoppable competition, its currently enjoyed levels of profitability are unsustainable. |
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They shouted at the crazy little slave boy who smiled in the face of death. |
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I'm glad that song came back to me, and made me laugh in the face of another brand new day. |
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The people have no power to force a referendum in the face of increasing royal nepotism and misuse of power. |
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It is very easy to get cut off from ground reality in the face of rampant sophistry and soft-soaping in the corridors. |
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Loss of rural farm and forestlands in the face of urban sprawl is a growing concern in the United States. |
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They view him as a vacillator whose tactical shifts in the face of foreign pressure have been unpardonable. |
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This seems to fly in the face of common sense, as Channel 4 newsreader Jon Snow observed in his interview with us. |
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The true practitioner of Vajrayana is unassailable in the face of difficulty. |
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The cuts have been considered as part of an internal review in the face of falling student applications for some courses. |
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He criticized the committee also for failing to issue bulletins in the face of substantial internal dissent. |
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Such hope lent a spring to their step and vigour to their efforts in the face of determined opposition. |
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Gould almost spat the dummy and quit last year, twice, in the face of a barrage of attacks and continual sniping from News Ltd. |
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None of them reported that they had relaxed their credit criteria in the face of the buoyancy in the Irish economy. |
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I need to remember these things because to forget would be to spit in the face of every single person who died that day. |
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I don't root for them because I'm a dark, soulless being or because I have some undying need to spit in the face of Red Sox fans. |
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That the band was brought down by a drunk driver fuels the irony and spits in the face of what Compromise stood for. |
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I mean, I think that was almost an attempt to spit in the face of anybody who feels that such things shouldn't be there. |
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It's a well known fact that all teenagers are constantly committing crimes and spitting in the face of the law. |
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It just seems to fly in the face of the way we do business as law enforcement officers. |
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Governments are thought to be impotent in the face of business interests to make improvements in people's lives. |
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It was like their argument had amounted into nothing in the face of such beauty. |
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Far from flying in the face of English academic freedom, maybe the latest haters are simply reverting to type. |
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They held on in the face of desperate Longford pressure and as the game entered its final stages they looked likely winners. |
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The stagecraft from the fine ensemble cast is excellent, especially in the face of such counter-intuitive direction. |
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The chief concern of union officials is to secure the income of their apparatus in the face of a stagnant or declining dues base. |
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I was embarrassed by my callousness in the face of my own ability to wreak minor havoc in the lives of others. |
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Female waitresses and bartenders everywhere know exactly what it's like to have to simper in silence in the face of some witless, leering oaf. |
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Theirs is an object lesson in making good in the face of adversity and it has been a privilege to represent them. |
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For a political leader to change his or her mind in the face of reality is a mark of statesmanship. |
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On the contrary, she was steadfast in the face of strong military pressure in the final years of the Suharto regime. |
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He was later canonised by the church, and became the symbol of manhood, strong will, and steadfastness in the face of ordeal. |
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If he spits in the face of deeply held Labour beliefs, he must not be surprised if offended party members retaliate. |
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It takes a special kind of mindset to be this delusional in the face of cold, hard facts. |
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Sticky prices in the face of positive movement in the economy points to some form of distortion. |
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My sister jumps through hoops for her like a puppy seeking approval and I get stiff-necked in the face of Mother's orders and pronouncements. |
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My friends and colleagues could not understand how I could be such a stoic in the face of losing out on a four-figure sum. |
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And in that kind of instance you would need a judiciary that is stout and stoic in the face of differences of opinion with the regime. |
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What we see in Frazer is a quality of stoical resignation in the face of hopelessness, mixed with sad beauty. |
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The United player kept his counsel, winning back public opinion with his stoicism in the face of the insults. |
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Eventually, by a series of stratagems, and in the face of continuing Treasury disapproval, he acquired it for the museum by instalments. |
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He could not force through his two demands in the face of stubborn opposition by the Optimates. |
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But this contemporary silence stems from more than just humility in the face of the great orations of the past. |
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They resigned in the face of threatened reprisals if they defied a government order to return to work. |
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The public likes to bemoan a difficult and wildly diva, hellish in rehearsal, magnanimous on stage, humble in the face of her art. |
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To not reduce the retail price in the face of the facts is sheer stupidity. |
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Progress will be slow but in the face of the alternatives we have to begin making these changes now. |
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Against this backdrop, Cincinnati voters distinguished themselves by keeping their cool in the face of a high-pressure campaign to sell the road. |
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So have we so lost our ability to feel compassion or be charitable in the face of sporting failure, that losing has become unacceptable? |
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It makes it very hard to explain to people how there can be a loving God in the face of all the suffering. |
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Unlike the early days of his campaign when he froze in the face of attack, Coors has hit back. |
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They must overcome this conditioning in the face of the overwhelming evidence now supporting their use, write two American cardiologists. |
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I was reminded of the marchers in Selma, wearing their Sunday best, dignified in the face of brutality. |
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These theaters of anxiety illustrate collective helplessness in the face of unmanageable man-made, natural or supernatural forces. |
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Because Spider Man is so human, we see his superpowers are really just an extension of his bravery in the face of adversity. |
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But now the same complaint is chiming with adults, angered by a decision to go to war that flies in the face of public opinion. |
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But claiming that large, out-of-town superstores are good for local businesses flies in the face of the evidence. |
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It all falls apart when each gratification palls in the face of mindless repetition. |
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By now the taste for Rococo decoration in Britain had been brushed aside in the face of the new-found fashion for Palladian architecture. |
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The obsession with svelte figures flies in the face of past beliefs that regarded those who were thin as being unhealthy and malnourished. |
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And they have recognised that the movement must be built in the face of hostile opposition from a Labour government. |
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Their proposal for a nuclear-free zone is a largely symbolic but very significant gesture in the face of terrorist violence. |
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But this sense of crisis obviously pales in the face of partisan interests. |
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The paucity of humility shown by the Government in the face of such antipathy is stomach-churning. |
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The scripts of political mobilisation and identity politics do not cease even in the face of a common suffering. |
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And, in the face of such unfeeling, unthinking idiocy, how can old Britons remain hopeful? |
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I realize I am helpless in the face of such penetratingly gauche cluelessness, and thus, I do the only thing I can do. |
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When he got stopped a few months ago he sprayed pepper spray in the face of a police officer. |
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This does not mean that you should do nothing in the face of adversity or confrontation. |
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As a group they command very little respect, but they must stand firm in the face of any confrontation. |
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Surviving in the face of adversity is a prerequisite for Newfoundland's logging contractors. |
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It was a good resolution, but one that failed in the face of a lovely sunny day. |
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While the game is about individuals in the face of confrontation, it is also about partnerships. |
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I felt kind of sorry for the guy, especially in the face of what I was about to do. |
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I mean, it is quite a thing to take away a man's job, even in the face of what looks to be gross misconduct. |
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David Blunkett has achieved much in life in the face of great personal adversity. |
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It's so easy to feel powerless in the face of all this stuff that it's very easy to give up. |
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This is his key argument, but it flies in the face of what most environmentalists probably hold to be true. |
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On the other hand, he's had a successful career despite this and smiled in the face of adversity. |
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When asked how she keeps going in the face of all her challenges, she smiles quietly. |
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They are also working to predict future demand in the face of further housing development. |
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People scratched their heads at the time in the face of what seemed an unlikely match. |
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Only a hagiocracy could provide them a safer border in the region, especially in the face of the perceived threat. |
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As an expression of community solidarity, and as a cathartic public moment of defiance in the face of the threat of personal loss, it is a powerful symbol. |
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In his own life, he hard-headedly defended his rights as an Egyptian citizen, applying for positions and grants in the face of official disapproval. |
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Over the past few years sales have rocketed, as people look for a safe home for their investments in the face of turbulent stock markets and paltry interest rates. |
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They were well known for their political passiveness, a position supported by a deep-seated belief in impotency of ordinary folk in the face of political ambitions. |
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Although I had been irritated with her on many occasions, I admired her drive and her uncomplaining coolness in the face of the dangers we'd encountered. |
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For a party member to win high office in the face of human nature requires him or her to pull the wool over the voters' eyes, to bamboozle them away from the evident truth. |
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It is testimony to her courage and persistence that she worked for so long in the face of such adversity. |
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On Twitter, the account was informative, but less responsive, also in the face of a stream of criticism. |
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In the ninth century, the Varangians were forced to retreat in the face of Slavonic defenders of Novgorod, who were well armed with iron spears and swords. |
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Courage, one recalls, is not the absence of fear but the ability to act in the face of it. |
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She has inspired us all with her courage in the face of adversity and her strength for never giving up. |
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Winters uses that cataclysmic event to examine the slow deterioration of communal life in the face of annihilation. |
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Why have educational outcomes so stubbornly flat-lined in the face of this wealth of educational resources? |
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In 1968, Richard Nixon touted his plan to end the war in Vietnam in the face of a challenge from the anti-war George Romney. |
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She has personally confronted suicide, business failure and biting criticism, and in the face of it all she perseveres. |
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In my descriptions of the encounter, I kept the focus on how I spluttered in the face of a blatantly sexist remark. |
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Eleven million people took to the streets last weekend to show their solidarity in the face of terror, and two days later voted to abase themselves before it. |
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How then, does the intelligent design movement persist, in the face of so much damning contrary evidence? |
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How can faith and fear abide in the face of this avalanche of enlightenment, this flash-flood of knowledge and exposure to everything that once had been only Our secrets? |
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In the second half at Bolton in particular, every man jack in that Rovers team gave every ounce of effort to preserve that lead in the face of a continual aerial bombardment. |
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The phenomenon flies in the face of a national trend that has seen a general slowdown in residential property price acceleration after years of spectacular growth. |
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A political fight between old rivals and bravery in the face of overwhelming force from both Ferguson, Mo., and Christy Mack. |
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Every deficiency is magnified, the feelings of loneliness, poverty, and hopelessness casting long and cold shadows over the snow in the face of the opulence of the chosen few. |
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How could they have been so cocksure in the face of so much contrary opinion from seemingly well qualified people? |
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The juror is said to have invoked common sense in the face of the statutes as codified by the State of Illinois. |
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The struggle to hold on to traditional values in the face of the new South African politics and western materialism forms an important theme in his writings. |
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Well over 10 million people were jobless in the face of savage inflation. |
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I am possessed, as much as the next man, of that stiff upper lip, steely resolve and adamantine backbone which make us British positively megalithic in the face of danger. |
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But even in the face of potential relapse, many exercisers worry that taking a break for health concerns may undo all the hard work they've put in at the gym. |
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Yesterday in the face of all this, even the state-owned Herald newspaper was finding it difficult to maintain its usual slavish support for government policies. |
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Yet instead of scaling back their political ambitions in the face of an obdurate reality, they are escalating them. |
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In movies and television they are still portrayed as Rambos, mercenaries, head cases, even as they approach retirement in the face of declining benefits. |
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Western democrats became hypocrites in the face of consultancy contracts or low-cost oil and gas. |
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He and his pals are stoic in the face of any criticism of their team. |
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Democrats, their backs up, have altered Senate rules on filibusters in the face of Republican obstruction. |
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This is the most likely medium-term solution, in the face of international condemnation and pressure, combined with its desperate need to reform its economy. |
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Tweets requesting that he come scream in the face of the respective tweeter are a daily occurrence. |
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The news flies in the face of flat denials by the BBC in Glasgow. |
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Probably not, but don't expect the market power argument to get a run in the face of patriotic fervour surrounding our Aussie white knight fending off the dodgy Swiss raiders. |
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She married in the face of vigorous objections from her family. |
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Occasionally, we may have to lend practical support for keeping the peace and protecting life and liberty in the face of internal and external aggression. |
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But most likely it was linked to the way priests identify with the poor in the face of government and criminal abuses. |
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Consequently, the leery wide boys responsible laughed in the face of the law for two years before the police finally found witnesses prepared to testify. |
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Well, I am not the sort of person to encourage illegal activity, but in the face of such wilful neglect and destructiveness, flying pickets would not seem out of place. |
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Their steadfast love in the face of horror can only be admired. |
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The objectification of nature in science and technology looks like mastery of nature but in fact it only demonstrates our impotence in the face of nature. |
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I have to admit, and in the face of all my weariness and skepticism, I like the idea. |
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This rebuke flew in the face of Hamilton's express words in his Report. |
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At first liberalism rallied in the face of medieval obscurantism. |
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The use of Bavarian, Swabian, or even Franconian dialect in lyrics signaled increased regional self-awareness in the face of linguistic homogenization. |
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Mauritanian society is strictly divided into a rigid caste system that flies in the face of the country's supposed march towards political liberalisation. |
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It is all too easy to be despondent in the face of what seems like the endless capacity of evil to reinvent itself. |
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In both cases, Lawrence is reacting authentically in the face of a public that expects actresses to be superhuman. |
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Musical genius, gifted writer, indubitable king of narcotic and alcoholic excess, Zevon now shows us that, in the face of oblivion, he also has balls the size of cantaloupes. |
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The play's more engaging theme is found in the moral struggle the characters encounter as they wrestle with the notion of integrity in the face of their grasping egos. |
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In 2001 the couple got married in the face of some unpropitious portents. |
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Suddenly, in the face of job searches and grad school applications, Greek Week and bottle parties just didn't seem very important, and so they quit. |
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Somehow their flaws seem insignificant in the face of their tenderness toward each other. |
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I just wanted you to know that some of us would rather give you a fair shake than rush to be the first to jump off the ship in the face of a rocky wave. |
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The Act gives the shareholder two possibilities for laying a removal resolution before a meeting of the shareholders in the face of an uncooperative board. |
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Such verbiage and dithering in the face of market mayhem helped Europe get into its mess in the first place. |
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Courage in the face of senseless, self-imposed danger is the coin the realm. |
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They've seen in recent years how quickly it's possible to get ahead by job hopping, yet they crave security in the face of today's shaky business climate. |
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I thought Latham was amazingly controlled in the face of a series of totally fatuous questions that raked over stuff that was already well and truly yesterday's news. |
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Then your application will be buff and strong and it will laugh in the face of wimpy problems like people who use commas instead of dots as the decimal. |
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Kidder had been sent to Haiti to report on American troops who were bracing the democratically elected government in the face of a powerful military junta. |
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He stands accused of splitting unionism, losing massive tranches of support and endangering the party in the face of next year's local government elections. |
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Nor should the irony of this be overlooked, given Hanson's stridently self-righteous defense of free speech in the face of repressive political correctness. |
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It's also true that friends and colleagues in the workplace are sometimes very supportive of people with disabilities, but that fades in the face of mimicry and mockery. |
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They are not killed, as are Easy Rider's dynamic duo, but death would seem a mercy in the face of the fate society seems to have in store for them. |
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It sold everything you would remember from the penny tray and I laughed in the face of my dentist and bought a sherbet dab, sherbet fountain and a bag of flying saucers. |
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It was a dignified response in the face of hideous provocation. |
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She's smart enough, however, to understand that her beauty and her bankroll will open doors that would otherwise slam flush in the face of an unrefined girl from the Colonies. |
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Unfortunately, it seems to fly in the face of our animal instincts. |
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Following the birth of his son, he gave himself over to a rapturous, sensual engagement with paint that seemed to fly in the face of his previous restraint. |
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The IOC members must possess tremendous faith to entrust the Games to Sochi in the face of such obstacles! |
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She felt totally lost in the face of the unremittingness of Olivia. |
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Neither major power wanted a conflict in north Italy, but the strength of appeals for support in the face of an apparently unresolvable dynastic dispute proved irresistible. |
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The backdrop was set in 1992 with the introduction of modern efforts to protect biodiversity in the face of so-called biopiracy, the stealing of local genetic material. |
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We're expected to be very level-headed and sane in the face of chaos. |
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But he remained nonplussed in the face of his wife's cynicism. |
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Yet Sweeney remains sanguine in the face of such universal naysaying. |
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Magazines were going through a tough time in the face of a digital onslaught, but Vogue was faring better than others. |
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The Commedia's last allusion to Virgil occurs as late as the final canto, when the poet marks the dissolution of his own powers in the face of God's reality. |
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If he remains silent in the face of the verbal assault, that silence will be taken as consent, thus proving his monstrosity. |
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But to anyone who has lived in Iran in recent years, women's fierceness in the face of authority is not particularly new. |
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She learned Arabic and became a pillar of support in local communities, often helping the needy in the face of opposition during the dictator's regime. |
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Once again, Republican pusillanimity in the face of gun fanaticism threatens to gut sane gun legislation in Congress. |
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That they persevered in the face of freezing cold, starvation and deprivation to win the struggle is one of the salient epic turning points of history. |
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